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Building a Research Community of Practice, and Researching Brilliance in Health Care: Now

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Hayes, K and Campbell, S and Curry, J and Dadich, A and Ditton, M and Eljiz, K and Fitzgerald, JA and Fulop, L and Herington, C and Isouard, G and Karimi, L and Smyth, A, Building a Research Community of Practice, and Researching Brilliance in Health Care: Now, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 5-7 December, Perth, pp. 1-19. (2012) [Refereed Conference Paper]

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Abstract

Engaged, inter-disciplinary, inter-organisational research is vital to address complex problems and
influence practice and theory. The Brilliance Group is a community of research practitioners from
Australian universities who voluntarily work together to locate, understand and spread what is
brilliant in our healthcare system. The Brilliance Group Community of Practice (CoP) evolved
around a shared knowledge-domain of health management. This paper explores how using an
unfamiliar research paradigm, dissimilar expertise and shared leadership have shaped the Brilliance
Group. The Brilliance Group operates in an unconventional research space, deals with an underappreciated
research topic and works with undervalued sources of evidence in healthcare. The paper
explores how the Brilliance Group CoP presents an innovative approach to researching healthcare
with potential to provide break-through knowledge.